I like that your argument against Anarchism is that people are selfish and greedy, so having a system where individuals have huge amounts of power and wealth and can get what they want is better.

Because (many) Anarchists would say that humans being selfish and wanting more for their own benefit is (one of) the most important reason(s) for stopping humans having power and control over others.

Thanks for the detailed responses.

Sounds like, to me, that you have a bigger issue with government than Socialism or Communism themselves. Are you much of an anarchist?

We can at least agree that it was a dictatorship under Stalin, right?

Does Kerala (though only a state and receives national funds) or Allendé’s Chile (Overthrown by US supported military coup after a couple of years) count, or do they not for the reasons in brackets or others?

Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.

Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.

And is very much based on skeletal records.

Subway in Europe does the veggie pattie and that is fire. Can’t find that automatically in non-Europe Subways.

Snape is the best part of the latter books. He’s well rounded, motivated, and a fully fleshed out character.

The rest of the world and half the people in it feel like cardboard shuddering in the breeze by that point.

The plot twist was that Snape wasn’t a traitor, and killed the dying Dumbledore to save Draco Malfoy from becoming a murderer.

It also has about 4x the population, and doesn’t pollute 4x more.

Plus it’s still the largest manufacturing hub in the world. Europe would pollute a lot more if we hadn’t exported a lot of (some might say too much) of our industry to the developing world and China over the last 50 years.